SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE Opening a database made with windows version, any changes give error message "Record changing failed". Possibly related: In the welcome screen, hovering over the recent files gives path: /run/user/1000/doc/584fdf25/srp_1a.kexi or similar instead of the path where the file was originaly opened from. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Version 3.2 (3.2.0, git 882d6ca 3.2) KDE Frameworks 5.58.0 Qt 5.12.3 (built against 5.12.3) The xcb windowing system
OS is Linux mint 19.1
Thanks for the report Ray. The /run/user/1000/doc/584fdf25/ folder does not look like something for end-user, especially in terms of permissions, hence the "Record changing failed" - te file might be seen as read-only. You may want to copy the file to a read-write location. PS: Is this 3.2 beta? 3.2.0 final is e2eb6f46529 (kexi.git, git tag v3.2.0).
Ray, one think more you can do. If we suspect there's any difference in handling given kexi file on Linux compared to Windows I would need a sample file, can be even small test, assuming it is behaving differently for you on Linux vs Windows. Please compress it and attach here or send to me confidently.
Thanks for your response. I don't think it is a windows/linux incompatibility. A new database made in my linux version of kexi seems to be only temporary: it's not there when I try to reopen it. So it looks like the version I installed from the Software manager may be not be good and seems to make only temporary files. When I tried to install from "flatpak install kde org.kde.kexi-stable" I get the error message "error: Unable to load summary from remote kde: GPG signatures found, but none are in trusted keyring"
Ray, maybe this helps, please tell me anyway: I've added this chapter in the wiki after the 3.2 release: https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Snapshots#Short_Flatpak_How_To Here you can see how to enable write access in your $HOME directory for KEXI. You can choose any other dir if you prefer. By default KEXI in Flatpak version won't have write access to any location.
I'm still getting the same error when trying to install from flatpack: ray@ray-OptiPlex-780:~$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists kde http://distribute.kde.org/flatpak-apps-testing ray@ray-OptiPlex-780:~$ flatpak install kde org.kde.kexi-stable error: Unable to load summary from remote kde: GPG signatures found, but none are in trusted keyring
I've changed from Linux mint to KDE Neon. Now Kexi 3.2 is easily installed from the distro and works with the file created in ms windows version.
Happy to hear that Ray, however I'll try to find answer to the Flatpak question.
I am assuming the original issue was for Flatpak.
Thanks Jarosław, the inability to install from flatpack is the important issue although the original issue was with a bad version of kexi I installed from the Linux Mint distro. Would it be best to close this and start a new bug report?
Ray, yes it would be best to close this and start a new bug report. Thanks.